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The Soulful Leader PodcastHustle Isn’t ResilienceResilience is hot! The word is being used in every context from problems, to theories, to solutions - as well as to push people to do even more.So what is it really and why does that matter to you, your team, and your business?Today, Stephanie and Maren dive into this maelstrom and talk candidly about what it is, why it's important to you and how to build true resilience within yourself, your team members and your business. 🧐 What if instead bouncing back, resilience meant taking a step forward?🧐 What if instead of more wi...2025-07-0123 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastYou’re Not Lost—You’re Being CalledPurpose. Meaning. Clarity.Do you ever feel like you’re chasing these in your life and just as you reach them, they, poof, slip through your fingers?You’re not alone.In this episode, Stephanie and Maren unpack what it really means to pursue this power trio — not as a destination, but as a living, breathing practice. Society treats them as boxes to tick, and that’s part of the problem. Today’s episode explores going beyond what you’ve been taught to a deeper kind of listening, into the path of inner master...2025-06-0329 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastEmotions Aren’t the Enemy: Turn Your Chaos into ClarityWhen your emotions are all over the place, it’s easy to fall for everything and anything. You’re easy to manipulate.On some level you know this, so you tuck those damn emotions aside, ignore them or try to control them - which only makes things worse. They come out at the most inopportune times.Sound familiar?The truth is, emotions are not a flaw to be overcome, they are one of the amazing gifts of being human. They are literally energy in motion, and as such, not only feed us, but are...2025-05-2032 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastChanging Outer Mayhem with Inner MasteryIt’s nuts out there. And when it’s calm and focused inside - it changes everything.As a culture, we are easily distracted obsessive over (fill in the blank) - politics, relationships, finances, etc. experiencing one health, environmental, societal crisis after another swinging from wound up to completely disengaged feeling angry one minute to hopeless the nextSo how do you stay sane? Focused? How do you even know what to focus on?The internal impacts of what is going on in our outer world is staggering. There are so many things coming at us...2025-05-0621 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastHow Losing $250k was a GiftWhat if the thing you're clinging to is the very thing holding you back?In this week’s episode, Stephanie and Maren dive deep into the attachments we hold—money, identity, expectations—and the hidden cost of not letting go. Maren shares her powerful personal story of losing $250,000 and the radical transformation that followed when she chose to see it not as a failure, but as a gift.Together, they explore:The emotional weight of attachmentThe courage it takes to surrenderHow to recognize what’s no longer serving youAnd what freedom really feels like on the o...2025-04-0833 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastBreaking Free from StuckHave you ever hung on to something you know is not good for you?A habit, a belief, maybe even a relationship or a job that you know sucks, but you can't seem to let it go?The thing you say, ‘if only’ this were different, my life would be great, then you don’t change it? ~ If only my husband were kinder, stronger, shorter, taller, etc. ~ If only my job paid me more money ~If only I could lose 20 poundsThe truth is that you stay stuck bec...2025-03-2524 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Secret to More EnergyEnergy is an interesting dynamic. It goes where we send it. When you are angry and fight against something, that something actually gets fed. You add your energy to it. Shifting focus towards what you want instead, stops feeding the beast you don’t want and diverts the energy into building your ideal - what you DO want. "I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there." ~ Mother Teresa In tod...2025-03-1130 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMel Robbins’ “Let Them” - Two Opposing ViewsMel Robbins has caught the nation’s attention with her ‘Let Them’ Theory. It’s simple, it’s empowering and it’s not as one-size-fits-all as people want to make it.This week, Stephanie and Maren bring opposing views on “Let Them”, which opens up a world of discussions and several thought provoking examples. The essential aspect for leaders is how they use their own experience of sitting on opposite sides of the fence to uplevel the traditional right/wrong/good/bad argument to a higher place of inspiration.Covering everything from understanding when ‘Let Them’ is your best...2025-02-1835 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMore Energy! Your Shadow's GiftThere is a direct link between Soulful Leadership, your shadow and Halloween.Don’t let it ‘spook’ you! Carl Jung has done powerful work around exploring the shadow as a path of both personal and leadership development. Today, Stephanie and Maren share how that can be done in a playful way. By consciously using Halloween (or any time of the year) you can embrace the beautiful leadership gifts that are stuffed in your shadow.In their fun, insightful way, Stephanie and Maren share the deeper side of our current customs so we can all min...2024-10-2928 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMotivation MasteryWhat motivates you? Does pain and fear get your butt in gear, or is it joy and meaning and purpose? Are ‘mess’ and ‘drama’ habitual patterns in your life?If you are comfortable complaining and don’t get really ‘motivated’ until something breaks or is on fire - then you are familiar with the fear/pain/adrenaline loop. While it works to get where you want to go, it’s exhausting and it’s probably gotten old.The adrenaline motivation loop takes a huge toll on our systems. Plus we end up in a cycle of i...2024-10-1531 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThat 'One Thing' You Can't Solve“If I just — (fill in the blank) — had enough money, got the promotion, had the right team, was in a relationship, had a better job, lived in a different town… THEN I would be happy!” Right?What if that ‘one thing’ that is eluding you is your greatest gift? And in getting it, you’d be cheated out of all the meaning, and unfolding beauty, of your life?The tantalizing shortcut, the quick fix - what if that is actually just rushing our life away? They say that we get to the end of life and wish for more time - be...2024-10-0119 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Rhythms of SuccessImagine one of those moments when everything in life was clicking. You hit your stride and all cylinders were firing.Your business, and life, can be like that regularly. And it does take an awareness of not only your personal rhythms, but of the rhythms around you as well. Just like a good drummer, you feel it when you are out of sync with yourself AND with your surroundings, you’ve just learned to ignore it …and push through it.To understand and master rhythms, you must be comfortable with transitions - something we te...2024-09-2419 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastExpanding TimeHow would you like all the time in the world to do what's necessary? The mystics say that we have it, so why do we always feel behind? One reason is that we’re out of tune with our own personal rhythm. Being out of rhythm puts us into tension, takes us out of flow, we are out of sync with the timing of things (and people) around us, everything gets crunchy.When we are in sync, time expands. It’s calming, kind, and nurturing. The body doesn't go in a fight or flight. It stay...2024-09-0313 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastWhy Are You Here?For what purpose were you born in this time? In this place? With these people? In this situation? There is a reason.“For every single problem, there is a solution right next to it. And those solutions are us.” - Maren OslacLife is more than meeting, or even exceeding, societal expectations. Ask anyone who has climbed that ladder. As leaders, we often feel pressured into doing all the ‘right’ things and checking off the boxes. And we lose ourselves in the process. Meaning is what we really seek and that is...2024-08-2028 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastInner Leadership- Awaken Your Potential“How we lead others is how we lead ourselves.”What does that even mean? And how does it help me as a person, and as a leader? We are different with different people - we’re one way with our spouse, another with our boss, another with our teams - we take on different personas. Last week Maren and Stephanie talked about this ‘inner’ cast of characters and this week they share three powerful practices to actually find AND develop those different parts of ourselves.As humans (and leaders), when we choose...2024-07-1623 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastOver Giving: Beneficial or Toxic?Let’s step into controversy!In business we’re often told to give more than expected. That’s good business. Yet personally, giving more that someone expects, needs or wants is often a sign of an unhealthy, co-dependent relationship.So which is it?How do we know if we should give more than expected or hold back?This is such a key subject for leaders and businesses that Stephanie and Maren went all in. They don’t hold anything back as they pull it apart and look at it from multiple lenses.2024-07-0924 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMaking Values Your FoundationValues are powerful tools, yet most of the time we don’t know what a value is, no less what our particular values are. Today Stephanie and Maren pull apart what values mean to us personally, and in our businesses. Knowing your values (and your business’ values) is one of the single most impactful thing you can do to attract customers and teams, to increase revenue and retention and even to meet Mr. or Ms. Right. Are you ready to shift out of the old way of relationships, of marketing, of leading.If you’ve...2024-06-2530 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Treasure Under the BedNegative emotions in our culture are something to be “fixed” and are usually pushed away, blocked or ignored - shoved under the bed of our lives. Just because we've blocked or ignored something doesn't mean that it's gone away, which is essential for leaders to understand. All those things that are pushed aside still take up time and energy, and they actually begin to control life from the shadows.Stephanie and Maren’s use of this delightful metaphor makes the whole subject playful and easy to grasp and puts a new, more joyful paradigm in the listener’s hands...2024-06-1128 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFinding Freedom: A Roadmap to More, and LessCleaning out a garage leads to a conversation about inner transformation and the truth of living joyfully. Learn how to break free from old patterns and embrace your life of abundance.“You can transform through pain and suffering or you can transform through joy and abundance and the magic of life” ~ Daniel GoodenoughDid you know that you have a choice? The tendency to fight, or to run away, pervades our society, and those are both places of pain and suffering, which does transform us. And it comes at a great cost: it's exhau...2024-05-2128 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastCreating the Life You Want: From Chatter to JoyWe’re all going somewhere, where are you going? Have you noticed that you struggle the most with the things you most want? There’s a reason. There’s also a way to change it. If you’re tired of the inner mind chatter and ready to create a life that you enjoy, that’s in-joy, today’s episode is for you.This week, Stephanie and Maren bring simplicity and impact tothe understanding that thoughts create our realitylooking at who is actually determining our values Reclaiming our thoughts and our valuesand morePLUS they give...2024-05-1431 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastOwn Your Flow: Break Out of The BoxDo the right things, hold the right job, make the right amount of money, be self-reliant - this is how we get accepted, be lovable. Stay in the box, or you get shamed.This is the narrative of our culture. We are immersed in it and don’t even realize how much it runs our lives. Today, Stephanie and Maren share a few of the ways they are transcending this false, and harmful, narrative and how that is not leadership.As humans, we adapt our personality in order to survive. And the soulful leader project is...2024-04-3031 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastBreaking the Leadership MoldSeason Two of the Soulful Leader Podcast has officially begun! Season One spanned 144 podcasts - one podcast every week for almost 3 years. Yes, a single season spanning that many episodes is unusual, and if you are a regular listener, you know that not much about Stephanie and Maren fits the norm. Thank goodness.Soulful leaders have a deep-seated longing for something more in life, beyond external success and happiness and Maren & Stephanie will be unpacking that along with other aspects of being a soulful leader with their usual insightful banter AND with a...2024-04-2314 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastStuck? Elevate Your View & Step into FlowDo you wake up to a to-do list already waiting for you? Do you ever feel stuck in the life you’ve created?It’s possible that you are not in flow. One of the quickest ways to step into flow is by starting to live questions instead of answers. This seems counter-intuitive. It’s not. As a child you knew this - your natural state was asking questions - and then you got conditioned out of it.Questions, especially the question ‘why’, elevate our view and open up space for the potential of the future to...2024-03-1221 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFinding Your Flow- Steel EnergyDid you know that asking the question ‘how?’ can be dangerous? It’s probably the most common question we ask, especially as leaders, and it can destroy the very things we seek to create.How will he get that done? How do we find more clients? How will I make 7 figures? All great questions, and it’s essential they are asked in the right timing. When the timing is wrong, it’s actually debilitating. In today’s podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about the 4th of Energies, the Steel Genius, those who love the question, ‘h...2024-03-0514 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFinding Your Flow- Tempo EnergyYou are MORE than you believe.We know it. You don’t realize how much of your self image is based on conditioning, based on your past. There are BRILLIANT aspects of you that you’ve squashed and put aside, because you were conditioned to fit in, you were told you were ‘too much’.It’s time to retrieve those parts and step into your shiny, amazing, uniqueness. It’s time to own your natural flow. Being in your flow state is most likely dependent on getting in touch with a few things you’ve pushed...2024-02-2713 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFinding Your Flow- Blaze EnergyThere's a genius in all of us, how do we unlock it?This is such a critical question for ourselves AND our businesses Maren & Stephanie have dedicated 6 full podcasts to this question, and exploring answers. There’s tons and tons of business advice out there, everyone telling you ‘do this, do that’. Yet it may not be right for you, your unique genius. How can you tell? Over 6 episodes Stephanie and Maren go through how to know who you are (your genius), how to build a top level team (adding complimentary geniuses) and which ‘guru’s advice’...2024-02-2027 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Magic of Integral Goal SettingGoal setting is top of mind for everyone right now. Are you inspired or a bit jaded?What if you could do it differently?Integrating (verb): To make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify. Goals have traditionally been about achieving something 'out there'", something separate from us. The catch is that whatever we're seeking 'out there', is also inside us. That's a foreign concept and most often the things we seek seem very separate from us. The people who integrate, or unify, those distinct parts, are the ones...2024-01-0220 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastPerception: Your Path to Getting UnstuckWhat if you could be done with dramas of misunderstandings?What if you could make your invisible filters visible?Perception shapes your entire world, from how happy you are to how much you feel valued to what job you have. That may seem like an extreme, and it’s true. And the thing about perception is that it’s SO EASY to believe that everyone experiences the same world you experience. In this week’s podcast Maren and Stephanie break down a few real world examples from their own lives of the challenges that differi...2023-12-2632 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Perfection Paradox: Constriction vs. FlowAre there advantages and disadvantages of having a perfectionistic outlook on life? On yourself?Stephanie and Maren argue both sides of this charged subject and share their unique insights on the lower vibration and the higher vibration of perfectionism.In the lower energy of perfectionism we’re constricted, like ice (the lower vibration of water). We're always needing to be more, to have more, never feeling good enough. We’re so busy judging that we never get to actually be present and enjoy who we are and what we have.The higher version stem...2023-12-1231 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThat Challenge is Your OpportunityAs leaders, we're confronted by challenges on a daily basis.We're also looking for opportunities.What if the very opportunity you seek is seeking for you, and it’s showing up as a challenge in your life?This is not how we’re taught to look at problems and challenges. We're taught to avoid them, stuff them, ignore them, plow through them or overcome them.Stephanie and Maren discuss a challenge from Maren’s life - her ongoing saga with her landlord - and look at it from a radically different perspective allowi...2023-12-0520 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastBeyond Imposter SyndromeWe are so quick to judge based on the surface, the external. We’re trained to choose jobs, houses and even our mates based on those surface, external metrics. It’s left us feeling isolated, as if we are not enough and needing to always do more. It’s taken a massive toll on us, both as individuals, and as a culture. In today’s episode, Stephanie and Maren bluntly discuss all aspects of this surface, societal leaning and don’t pull any punches. From the impacts (Getting called to the ‘Show’, Matthew Perry’s recent passing) to helpful metaph...2023-11-2825 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastEnd the Forcing, Fixing and Figuring - Step into Radical FlowToday’s podcast is very different. It introduces a radically different approach to life - from business to relationships to health and wellness. What if you could live in flow with 100% absolute certainty that trustworthy guidance for what is next, how to achieve it and who to involve would always be there for you? What if you never had to force, figure or fix another thing in your life?Would you be willing to work on the skills necessary to make that a reality? To step into your personal Radical Flow?Mar...2023-11-2126 min